Re: If Bill Gates is such a great philanthropist . . .

Subject: Re: If Bill Gates is such a great philanthropist . . .
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: "Jonathan West" <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org>, "'TECHWR-L'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:41:44 -0700

I build TOCs and Indexes in Word master docs without any serious
problems. The key, as I said previously, is to ensure that all your
component docs use the *exact same* controlled template, without
any rogue styles slipping in through other peoples' doc files. Where
most people fall into the snake pit, I think, is in pulling in docs from
various sources and depending on their master document's template
to override whatever formatting is in the subdocs. IMO, that part
of Word truly is broken.

Frame's "advantage" over Word for large, complex docs is mostly
in the fact that the relative scarcity of Frame seats in most companies
means that the Frame user is *usually* protected from attempts by
others to "help" build and update documents.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan West" <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org>

You need to define named ListTemplates and attach styles to them. Define
your own styles rather than reusing the built-in styles to avoid the "Jason
tabs" problem.

<< the broken Master Document feature (and the need to cobble together
Indexes and TOCs through other means)>>

You could build ToCs and indexes out of multiple files long before Master
Documents were ever invented, and the old method still works perfectly well.

This whole Frame-is-better-than-Word-for-long-documents issue has been
around for a very long time. Take a look at a newsgroup discussion on this
very topic between myself and Sean Brierley - in 1998!

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